FBI Seeking New Invasive Global Hacking Powers

Mon, 03/11/2014 - 15:00 — smashdracs

The proposed amendment would allow judges to issue warrants allowing the FBI to hack into any computer, regardless of location. The FBI claims the rule change would help federal investigators conduct surveillance of “anonymized” computers, whose locations have been concealed using tools such as the Internet anonymity networkTor.

A clause in the proposed amendment would allow judges to issue warrants to gain “remote access” to computers “located within or outside” districts where specific criminal activity is suspected in cases in which the “district where the media or information is located has been concealed through technological means.”
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